Source: Web Shots.com – “Monkey Business” © Tom Brakefield Are monkeys in your family tree?
Early Primates end of the Cretaceous period (ca. 65 Mya) rapid increase in mammalian species after K-T event Primates were among these opportunistic, niche-filling species
Source: Boyd & Silk, 1999 Early Primates
Catopithecus brownii Source: Boyd & Silk, 1999
genus Proconsul
Source: Nature.com Sahelanthropus tchadensis
Ardipithecus ramidus Source: PBS – A Science Odyssey and Energy Science News
Australopithecus anamensis Source: PBS – A Science Odyssey and Modern Human Origins.com
Australopithecus afarensis “Lucy” Sources: PBS – A Science Odyssey and archeologyinfo.com
Spatiotemporal Distribution of Later Australopithecines SpeciesGeographic Location Temporal Distribution Morphology A. africanusSouth Africa MyaGracile A. robustusSouth Africa MyaRobust A. boiseiEast Africa MyaRobust A. aethiopicusEast Africa MyaRobust Source: Boyd & Silk, 1999
Australopithecus africanus Source: PBS – A Science Odyssey
Australopithecus robustus Sources: PBS – A Science Odyssey and archeologyinfo.com
Australopithecus aethiopicus Source: Humboldt University
“Zinj” - Australopithecus boisei Sources: PBS – A Science Odyssey and archeologyinfo.com
Early Homo Sources: PBS – A Science Odyssey and archeologyinfo.com
Homo habilis Sources: PBS – A Science Odyssey and archeologyinfo.com
Homo erectus Sources: PBS – A Science Odyssey and archeologyinfo.com
Homo sapiens (archaic) aka Homo heidelbergensis Sources: PBS – A Science Odyssey and Humboldt Univ.
Homo sapiens neanderthalensis Sources: PBS – A Science Odyssey and Humboldt Univ.
Homo sapiens (modern) Sources: PBS – A Science Odyssey and Humboldt Univ.
Pictorial Cladogram Source: PBS – A Science Odyssey
Source: archeologyinfo.com
Pedigree Chart Adam Eve You
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Male Mandrill © Tom Brakefield
Source: Webshots.com
Western Lowland Gorilla © Tom Brakefield
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